Package: ppmd Version: 10.1-4 When trying to process the large file (3Gb in my case), ppmd utility silently exits without any processing:
# ll in.txt -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3264023644 Mar 9 11:51 in.txt # time ppmd e -s -ftest.ppmd in.txt real 0m0.038s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.036s -- With best regards, Dmitry
execve("/usr/bin/ppmd", ["ppmd", "e", "-s", "-ftest.ppmd", "in.txt"], [/* 37 vars */]) = 0 brk(0) = 0x88ff000 access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) mmap2(NULL, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7890000 access("/etc/ld.so.preload", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=35843, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 35843, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0xb7887000 close(3) = 0 access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0P\246\4\0004\0\0\0"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=922060, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 951720, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0xb779e000 mprotect(0xb787a000, 4096, PROT_NONE) = 0 mmap2(0xb787b000, 20480, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0xdc) = 0xb787b000 mmap2(0xb7880000, 26024, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7880000 close(3) = 0 access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libm.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\2604\0\0004\0\0\0"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=148996, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 151680, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0xb7778000 mmap2(0xb779c000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x23) = 0xb779c000 close(3) = 0 access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\260#\0\0004\0\0\0"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=115472, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7777000 mmap2(NULL, 118544, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0xb775a000 mmap2(0xb7776000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x1b) = 0xb7776000 close(3) = 0 access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\240o\1\0004\0\0\0"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=1401000, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 1415544, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0xb7600000 mprotect(0xb7753000, 4096, PROT_NONE) = 0 mmap2(0xb7754000, 12288, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x153) = 0xb7754000 mmap2(0xb7757000, 10616, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7757000 close(3) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb75ff000 set_thread_area({entry_number:-1 -> 6, base_addr:0xb75ff6d0, limit:1048575, seg_32bit:1, contents:0, read_exec_only:0, limit_in_pages:1, seg_not_present:0, useable:1}) = 0 mprotect(0xb7754000, 8192, PROT_READ) = 0 mprotect(0xb779c000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb75fe000 mprotect(0xb787b000, 16384, PROT_READ) = 0 mprotect(0xb78ae000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0 munmap(0xb7887000, 35843) = 0 brk(0) = 0x88ff000 brk(0x8920000) = 0x8920000 open("test.ppmd", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open(".", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 getdents(3, /* 24 entries */, 32768) = 656 stat64("./in.txt", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=3264023644, ...}) = 0 getdents(3, /* 0 entries */, 32768) = 0 close(3) = 0 exit_group(0) = ?